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Le Forum, Vol. 45 #4, Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Marie Therese Martin, Clifford Chasse, Joan Corbitt, Sandra San Antonio, Jacob Albert, Laurance Côté-Cournoyer, Melody Desjardins, Michael Guignard, Gene Michaud, Xavier De La Prade, David Le Gallant, Juliana L'Heureux, Carl Labbe, Dyke Hendrickson, Denis Ledoux, Marielle Cormier-Boudreau, Michiel Oudemans, Melvin Gallant, Cathie Pelletier, Mark Paul Richard, Felix Gatineau, Elizabeth Blood, Kimberly Lamay Licursi, Celine Racine Paquette, James D. Brangan, Lynn Plourde, Yvon Labbé

Le FORUM Journal

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Regional Folk Beliefs, Edward D. Ives

Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers

This accession contains over 4,000 folk beliefs organized on individual, 4x6-inch index cards. A majority of the belief cards were collected by students participating during the 1960s as part of the American Folklore course taught by Dr. Edward D. “Sandy” Ives. Folk beliefs originate primarily from Maine and the Maritimes, but occasionally extend into other areas. Each download contains a copy of the 1965 syllabus for American Folklore, explaining the assignment given to students.

Please Note: A significant number of these cards are handwritten and are not currently available as typed transcriptions. The belief cards are organized into categories noted …

Wabanaki Experiences And Perspectives On “Our Shared Ocean”: Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission Special Report Sea Run, Anthony W. Sutton, Judson Esty-Kendall, Paul Thibeault

Maine Policy Review

The Maine Indian State Tribal Commission (MITSC) recently published a special report titled, Sea Run, documenting the impact of Colonial and Maine policies and activities on the quality and quantity of tribal fisheries spanning the time from first contact between Europeans and the Wabanaki Nations to today.

Le Forum, Vol. 45 #3, Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Patrick Lacroix, Susan Pinette, Julianna L'Heureux, Virginia Lee Sand, Lori Suzanne Dell, Melody Desjardins, Chip Bergeron, Xavier De La Prade, Erika Blair, Pierre Girard, Hon. Jim Bélanger, Jim Bishop, Susan Cyr, Margaret Langford

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"A Nice, Beautiful, Active, & Faithful Friend": Horses & Emotion In The Civil War Letters Of Two Union Officers, Allen F. Horn Iv

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Horses are the unsung heroes of the American Civil War. Both armies relied heavily on equines for a variety of tasks. They carried cavalry soldiers on the battlefield and pulled wagons for artillery and military supply chains. Horses could also serve as companion animals. Soldiers formed friendships with their horses as a way to heal from the trauma of combat and stave off the monotony of camp life. Writing about animals in letters to their families enabled soldiers to explain their experiences in more palatable terms to their families. As over 1.2 million horses and mules died in the conflict, …

Le Forum, Vol. 45 #1 & #2, Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Juliana L'Heureux, Michael J. Guignard, Don Levesque, Cecile Bossé Dechaine, Virginia Lee Sand, Patrick Lacroix, Megan St. Marie, Chip Bergeron, Robert Poniatowski, Ron Héroux, Margaret S. Langford, David Le Gallant, Keith E. Hummel

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Le Forum, Vol. 44 #4, Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Melody Desjardins, David Vermette, Patrick Lacroix, Virginia Lee Sand, Julianna L'Heureux, Paige Impink, Timothy Beaulieu, Dick Shaw, Marc Chassé, Raymond Pelletier, Ron Héroux, Normand C. Dubé, Claire Bolduc, Normand Beaupré, Russell Larson, Mary B. Perrin, Beverly Fuselier, Warren A. Perrin, Marie Thérèse Martin, Evan Nadeau, Meg Clark, Norman Desmarais, Cathie Pelletier, Chelsea Castonguay, Roger Parent, Paul Cyr

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Le Forum, Vol. 44 #3, Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Patrick Lacroix, Virginia Lee Sand, Tammy Wells, Juliana L'Heureux, Megan St. Marie, Ron Héroux, Onias Martin, Claude Milot, Louis Fontaine, Raymond Alfred Lambert, Leo B. Desjardins, Lionel J. Desjardins, Albert W. Hamel, George Hall, Pierre Lagrandeur, Michael Guignard, Henry Conrad Cousineau, Juliette L. Bruneau, Anne Gabbianelli, Richard J. Cormier, Severin Beliveau, Paul R. Dionne

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Le Forum, Vol. 44 #2, Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Daniel Moreau, Anna Faherty, Virginia L. Sand, Rhea Côté Robbins, Linda Gerard Dersimonian, Patrick Lacroix, Don Levesque, Kevin St. Jarre, Juliana L'Heureux, Marie Yvonne Blanche Cavanagh, Denis Carrier, Nicole Gallant Nunes

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Bound By Print: The Baptist Borderlands Of Maine And The Canadian Maritimes, 1770-1840, Brittany P. Goetting

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Asynchronous communication was essential for the development of the cross-border and global identities of Baptists in Maine and the Canadian Maritimes between 1770 and 1840. Religious print, especially published association meeting notes and periodicals, extended the reach of itinerant preaching and molded a cross-border community in the Northeast Borderlands between 1790 and 1810. It allowed Baptists to discuss theology, share news about local churches, and expand their community. American Baptists formed international institutions focused on the spread of Protestantism after the War of 1812, and Maine Baptists actively engaged this more global community through financial donations to the new institutions …

Where Do I Belong In The United States Public School System?, Christiana R. Becker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

I seek to inquire about the world as it relates to my identity as a first generation descent of the Penobscot tribe living in the United States by utilizing four methodologies in my research: life histories/autobiographies, narrative inquiry, a/r/tography and practice-based and practice-led. Through coupling my artistic practice with those four methodologies I am able to creatively show the information I have unearthed in hopes that others will benefit from a fresh and augmented understanding of what it historically and culturally means to be a part of a community that makes up a very small percentage of the United States …

Le Forum, Vol. 44 #1, Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Michael Guignard, Virginia L. Sand, Linda Gerard Der Simonian, Juliana L'Heureux, James Myall, Abby Paige, Marie S. Landry, Dick Bernard, Ron Héroux, Denis Carrier, David Le Gallant, Bob Chenard, Chip Bergeron

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Le Forum, Vol. 43 #3, Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Timothy St. Pierre, James Myall, Juliana L'Heureux, Gerard Coulombe, Patrick Lacroix, Suzanne Beebe, Janet Hudgins, Don Levesque, Chip Bergeron, Dana Paul Murch, Patrick Lacroix, Phil Nadeau, Paul Marion, Steven Riel, Virginia Sand-Roy

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A Concealment Shoe As Ritualistic Grieving Gesture: A Case Study In An Early 20th Century Maine Finnish Immigrant Community, Anne Bardaglio

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The widespread practice of ritually concealing shoes as apotropaic devices to protect liminal spaces such as walls, thresholds, windows, and chimneys, most often in private homes, dates to the 14th century. The practice also has roots in pre-Christian, pan-European traditions of domestic spirits and can sometimes function as a commemorative gesture to memorialize deceased loved ones. This study analyzes an early 20th-century concealed shoe deposit discovered in Long Cove, Maine and locating it within the cultural context of Long Cove’s history as a Finnish immigrant community within an approximately twenty-year period (c. 1890-1910). The study explores ways in which the …

Le Forum, Vol. 43 No. 2, Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Gérard Coulombe, Daniel Moreau, Kate Gagliardi, Patrick Lacroix, Suzanne Beebe, Xavier De La Prade, Claude Milot, Roger Lambert, Rhea Côté Robbins, Laurie Graves, Douglas Rooks, Rachel Michaud, Steven Riel, Normand Dubé, Ron Héroux, Virginia Sand- Roy

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"Black Studies In 21st Century Higher Education" Webinar Video, University Of Maine Black Student Union, University Of Maine Alumni Association, John H. Bracey Jr., Ph.D., Sonia Sanchez Ph.D.

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Video, transcript, and promotional materials for a web-based seminar featuring Dr. Sonia Sanchez and Dr. John Bracey discussing Black Studies in 21st century higher education. The Black History Month program was hosted by the University of Maine Black Student Union, co-hosted by the UMaine Alumni Association.

John Holmes And The Shifting Partisan Politics Of Slavery In Early Maine, Matthew Mason

Maine History

The longevity and shifting partisan allegiances of the political career of John Holmes illuminate many of the issues animating Maine politics in the broad statehood era. None of these issues dogged Holmes or revealed the intersection of Maine and national politics better than that of slavery. His seemingly endless political flexibility makes Holmes an unusually good barometer of the mainstream position in Maine on slavery and related issues across this broad period. Matthew Mason is a professor of history at Brigham Young University. He is the author of books including Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic(2006) and …

Two Narratives About A Nineteenth-Century African American Settlement In Rural Maine, Christopher Marshall

Maine History

African Americans lived in the central Maine townships of Troy and Burnham in the nineteenth century, and a region there is said to contain their abandoned settlement. This is a study of two local narratives about the settlement. Older residents maintain an oral tradition largely based on field evidence, while in-migrants tell a very different story linked to national meanings and events. Using oral histories, documentary research, and archaeological survey work, our research has uncovered much of the story of the African American presence in these towns. While bearers of each narrative tradition feel theirs is an accurate historical account …

With A Little Help From My Friends: Jewish Mutual Assistance In Nineteenth-Century Maine, David M. Freidenreich, Kristin Esdale

Maine History

Jews in 19th-century Maine relied on familial, ethnic, and, to a lesser degree, institutional networks of mutual assistance to survive and thrive. These Jews, who commonly worked as merchants of clothing and other dry goods, counted on family members to get them through hard times and hired fellow Jews to peddle their wares in the countryside. Jewish peddlers and merchants regularly borrowed or loaned cash and goods on credit within a small, tightly knit community that extended across Maine and as far as Boston and New York. Commercial networks also reinforced familial ties as children and in-laws entered the family …

Photo Essay: State Of Mind: Becoming Maine, Maine Historical Society

Maine History

The separation from Massachusetts in 1820 had different meanings and implications for residents grounded in geography, culture, race, and economic standing. Understanding that the history of how Maine became a state is rooted in the stories of people, State of Mind: Becoming Maine focuses on four distinct communities—Wabanaki, Acadien French, Black, and English-speaking people all who have deep ties to the land now known as Maine. While multitudes of distinct cultural communities have, and continue to call Maine home, the Wabanaki have cared for this land for millennia. The French, Black, and English-speaking people have resided here since the early …

Land Tenure In Acadian Agricultural Settlements, 1604-1755: Cultural Retention And The Emergence Of Custom, Carol A. Blasi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Starting in 1755, the British began the process of not only expelling some eleven thousand Acadians from their homes and farms, but also of uprooting a culture that had survived for over one hundred and twenty years. This dissertation applies a legal historical approach to elucidate a crucial feature of that culture, namely Acadian land tenure. In particular, it traces the way in which seigneurialism, and the French law supporting it, were central to property formation in Acadian agricultural settlements from their inception to their destruction in 1755.

Scholars have been at best ambivalent, and at worst hostile to the …

Book Reviews, William David Berry, H. H. Price

Maine History

Reviews of the following books: Maine Labor in the Age of Decentralization and Global Markets 1955-2005 by Charles A. Scontras; Still Mill: Stories and Songs of Making Paper in Bucksport, Maine 1930-2014 edited by Patricia Smith Ranzoni.

“There Are Folks Comin’ After Us That Will Need Trees”: Progressive Era Conservation, The Woods Tradition, And Maine Writer Holman Francis Day, Dale E. Potts

Maine History

Throughout his novels, Maine author Holman Francis Day maintained the importance of both the conservation of timber and the cultural conservation of Maine’s rural communities. Day wrote his novels in a Progressive Era climate permeated by a wise-use ideology. The point for Day, however, was not whether resources should be used, but by whom; his approach emphasized Maine’s resources for Maine’s people and industry. As a writer of fiction, Day balanced the needs of the people of Maine with a concern for the natural resources that made the state unique. Dale Potts is an Assistant Professor of History at South …

Le Messager: A Franco-American Newspaper And Its Impact, Mitchel ("Mitch") John Roberge

Franco-American Centre Franco-Américain Undergraduate Scholarship

I grew up in Lewiston as a Franco-American on both sides of my family. My heritage has always been a fascination of mine. Anyone who studies Franco-Americans can’t help but notice that there is a striking sense of what it means to be a part of the big-C Community. Franco Americans are good Catholics, their work ethic is unmatched, families are generally on the large side, and they generally vote Democrat (this is changing a bit, but historically is the case). This social order is well known to those in the community. The idea that Francos have a strongly bonded …

Wabanaki Access To Sweetgrass (Hierochloe Odorata) Within Coastal Maine's Diminishing Open Land Tradition, Amanda Marie Ellis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Nontimber forest products (NTFPs), refer to a class of resources (i.e. moss, fungi, mushrooms, plants, etc.) gathered in both rural and urban landscapes. NTFPs are utilized by a variety of cultures all over the world and are a critical part of medicinal, spiritual, dietary, and economic practices. In fact, some NTFP species are so critical to people that they are considered ‘cultural keystone species’ (Garibaldi and Turner 2004). This designation means that without access to the NTFP, cultural survival is at risk. This is the case in Maine where the Wabanaki, a confederacy of four tribes (Passamaqouddy, Penobscot, Mikmaq, and …

At The “Busy Campus Crossroads”: The Last Fifty Years At Raymond H. Fogler Library, Desiree Butterfield-Nagy

Maine History

Keeping pace with an “overwhelming explosion of knowledge and information” has been a particular challenge for those at Raymond H. Fogler Library since the university celebrated its centennial in 1965. The technologies for the storage and delivery of information have seen unprecedented rates of innovation, acceptance, and obsolescence. Acquiring appropriate materials has necessitated a close look at changing needs of faculty, increasingly specialized programs, university budget freezes, shifting alignments with other libraries in the University of Maine System, and increasing costs of many subscription journals and databases. Even as electronic access has become prolific, libraries continue to be viewed as …

Department Of History Symposium Series, Featuring Dr. Edward Baptist, University Of Maine Department Of History

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

As the only Ph.D.-granting department int he Humanities in the entire state, the History Department at the University of Maine plays a crucial role training humanists who staff cultural organizations throughout the state, including all other UMS campuses, and many faculty and staff positions at UMaine. The October 16 Lecture will bring an expert to campus to speak about the Morrill Land Grant act and how it transformed US values for the modern era.This lecture is a keystone in CLAS and UMHC programming for the Homecoming Weekend, and it will be followed by a CLAS alumni and friends reception at …

2016 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Celebration, University Of Maine Student Life

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Alison Beyea is the Executive Director of the ACLU of Maine, where she oversees the organization's legal, legislative, public education and development activities. With 3,000 members, the ACLU of Maine is the state's oldest and largest civil liberties organization.

The state of the union from the Citizen's Perspective delivered by Alison Beyea will be the focus of a keynote address at the 20th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast on Jan. 18, 2016 sponsored by the Greater Bangor Area NAACP and the University of Maine. Keynote Speaker Alison Beyea will speak on current national affairs and trends, education, …

Reverend Jonathan Fisher: One Thread In The Web Of Early American Education, 1780-1830, Brittany P. Cathey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Jonathan Fisher was a remarkably gifted man with a passionate interest in the education of the future generations of Maine citizens. No historian, however, has yet to examine Jonathan Fisher’s connection to American educational trends. Primary and secondary schools had existed in colonial America since the 1630s. Fisher witnessed and participated in the transformation of American schooling through his involvement in the local schools, libraries and education within his home, his establishment and maintenance of the Blue Hill Academy and the Bangor Theological Seminary and the publication of his juvenile works The Youth’s Primer and Scripture Animals.

The first …

‘The Farmer’S Family Must Find Compensation In Something Less Tangible, Less Material’: Culture And Agriculture In Maine And New England, 1870-1905”, Cody P. Miller

Maine History

Following the Civil War, American agriculture changed dramatically, and New England was no exception. With new railroad systems, specialized crop markets, and chemical fertilizers, Maine and other New England farmers found themselves as part of an increasingly commercialized agricultural system. Farmers, urban pundits, and agricultural reformers all stressed the need to abandon small, mixed husbandry farming and instead they urged farmers to start treating agriculture like a business. In order to “progress,” one needed to increase acreage and adopt specialized cropping. While many farmers accepted this mantra, others resisted it and argued that there was a moral quality to agriculture …